M&D cover: The Ampersand looks like Triple SIX (666)

[David Morris]

Laurel & Hardie
Burns & Allen
Abott & Costello
Lucy & Desi

In other words: Marriage.
Marriage in all its foibles.
A classic construct.

If this ampersand is a line, a border, it is all twisted, as it is always
in a marriage.

David Morris


On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> NICE.
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:40 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > This is my first time writing to you all, but as someone else here
> wrote, I
> > figure I should join the fun before I get too self-conscious.
> > I also took a long look at the front cover layout, and it occurred to me
> > that in:
> >
> > Mason
> > &
> > Dixon
> >
> > the ampersand could be the line itself.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:32 PM, Mark Thibodeau wrote:
> >
> > Now I'm wondering about the juxtaposition of
> >
> > SON
> >   &
> > XON
> >
> > on the cover as it appears on the shelf.
> >
> > And the spine?
> >
> >   A
> > (info)
> >   I
> >
> > Hmmm... curiouser and curiouser...
> >
> > MT
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> TRP did allude to page 666 in ATD in a press release thingie for that
> >> book. Pretty jokey there.
> >>
> >> pretty unusual ampersand so if that designer found it and he liked it,
> >> he may have liked the eerie associations.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Thought I might as well put this in a separate post.
> >> >
> >> > I know it's foolish, but foolish can be relevant sometimes.
> >> >
> >> > Again, I reiterate, if this isn't an accident, and Pynchon (who I
> think
> >> > we
> >> > all assume played a role in the book's design) hid the traditional
> Mark
> >> > of
> >> > the Devil on the cover on purpose, what does that say about what
> PYNCHON
> >> > has
> >> > to say about what America has become?
> >> >
> >> > Mark T. / Jerky LeB.
> >
> >
> >
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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